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Originally Posted by Michaelangelica
modest
Fine I should have said " suspected" not expected.
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Don't get me wrong - I don't think it's an odd thing to expect - I just don't think that study did anything right toward proving or even implying that it's true.
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Originally Posted by Michaelangelica
Yes modest very small sample indeed agreed. (Far too smal.l I am surprised the stas worked. I guess the computer does it all these days.)
How were they picked from the population? Did I miss that? Psy 101 Students again?
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I don't recall it saying how they were chosen. Neither did it say what age each participant was or any other information that would give a control. For example, if the conservatives were mostly older than the liberals then this test was most likely just testing reaction time differences in age. I believe there are many things this test could have been indicating other than political ideology. It's like picking out 30 people and finding out 8 of the taller ones are conservative and concluding that political ideology is genetically controlled by height.
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